{
  "urn": "urn:us-la:civcode:art:3340",
  "article_number": "3340",
  "heading": "Effect of recording other documents",
  "text": "If the law or a recorded instrument expressly makes the recordation of an act or instrument a condition to the creation, extinction, or modification of rights or obligations, such act or instrument is not effective as to a third person until it is recorded.\n\nThe recordation of a document, other than an instrument described in Article 3338, that is required by law to be registered, filed, or otherwise recorded with the clerk of court or recorder of conveyances or of mortgages or in the conveyance or mortgage records shall have only the effect provided for by such law.",
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      "level": "book",
      "number": "III",
      "name": "Of the Different Modes of Acquiring the Ownership of Things"
    },
    {
      "level": "title",
      "number": "XXII-A",
      "name": "Of Registry"
    },
    {
      "level": "chapter",
      "number": "1",
      "name": "General Provisions"
    }
  ],
  "breadcrumb": "Book III › Title XXII-A › Chapter 1",
  "acts_citations": [
    {
      "act_year": 2005,
      "act_number": 169,
      "section": 1,
      "effective_date": "2006-01-01",
      "effective_date_raw": "Jan. 1, 2006",
      "role": "enactment"
    }
  ],
  "acts_citations_raw": "Acts 2005, No. 169, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, eff. Nov. 29, 2005. NOTE: Acts 2005, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 13, §1, changed the effective date of Acts 2005, No. 169, to July 1, 2006.",
  "source_url": "https://legis.la.gov/legis/Law.aspx?d=321902",
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